Savage in Radio World

[KB1OKL]

I got a free three month subscription to Satrad when I bought my new car last year, I have never let my subscription run out and won't. I get specialized channels such as Deep Tracks which is a late 60's -70's AOR channel and Underground Garage 24 hrs. a day which you'll never find on free radio. In fact I listen to AM radio much more than I listen to FM now, at least there's some good talk shows and baseball games on AM, what's on FM? SOS on every channel.
The best thing about Satrad besides the choice? It very rarely drops out.

 

[HowardMBurgers]

And the included XM or Sirius subscription from the new cars is what both satellite organizations used to keep the investor/shareholder wolves at bay for the past five years. Now that the two companies merged and are no longer subsidizing the installation of satellite receivers in new cars, they no longer can tout their subscription levels. Statistics show that over 60% of the free trial subscriptions were not renewed after the first year.

Combine that with 'The New General Motors' no longer having a financial stake in XM, and the satellite radio folks are barely hanging on in this tough economy.

 

[TheRover]

Re: Robert Savage in Radio World

I have HD Radio in the car and in the home.

I thought that with the extra channels on FM radio, that I would actually get to hear something other than "The Hits". But, even on HD-2 channels all across the dial....

Nothing but more of the same.... JUST Hits, of ever more genres....

THAT'S NOT WHAT I WANTED !

As for AM HD..... I have no use for it. I enjoy News, Talk, & Sports without the HD effect. THAT is a taste issue.

As for FM sounding better in HD.... Only the Classical station benefits.

Almost all other FM stations are so Top-Down controlled to compress their signals to the max, that that unpure FM signal being shoved down everyone's throats isn't made any better for me.... in HD.

The content and the delivery are continuing to decay in this medium I grew to love so many years ago.

Wonkers tell me to "go and get an i-Pod and just listen to what you want".....

NO - I want the Radio Landscape changed so that I and others that enjoy good sounding music can hear it on at least -one- station in a major market.

Musically speaking, Junk radio is all I see now....

Govt. efficiency, right ? ?

 

[TheBigA]

Re: Robert Savage in Radio World

I want the Radio Landscape changed so that I and others that enjoy good sounding music can hear it on at least -one- station in a major market.

Define "good sounding music."

That's the problem. Radio really hasn't changed much in the last 30 years. It's always been very controlled, in terms of content and delivery. Small playlists (thus Top 40) and lots of audio processing. That was the idea. But that only worked when there was no competition. Now, you have unlimited numbers of musicians making unlimited kinds of music, available on unlimited channels. But you still have the same number of radio stations in every market. And music taste has become more fractionalized and individual. So if you and others (it has to be lots of others) can agree on the good sounding music you want, I'm sure you'll be able to find at least one station per market doing it. Until then, those few radio stations will stick with the few music formats that attract the most people, and smash the dynamics out of the sound in order to be louder than their competition.

 

[KB1OKL]

Re: Robert Savage in Radio World

I want the Radio Landscape changed so that I and others that enjoy good sounding music can hear it on at least -one- station in a major market.

That's the problem. Radio really hasn't changed much in the last 30 years. It's always been very controlled, in terms of content and delivery. Small playlists (thus Top 40) and lots of audio processing.

30 years ago radio was vastly different, I know, i was a radio junkie and had on "my" WBCN constantly, the play lists were much larger, they could play some of their own music, the jocks were relaxed and funny and were your buddy and at least BCN, sounded great. That is extinct nowadays, radio sounds like a juke box with thirty songs in it and the jocks aren't allowed to have personality anymore.
WBCN just switched formats after 41 years years incidentally, very sad day in Boston

 

[TheBigA]

Re: Robert Savage in Radio World

I know, i was a radio junkie and had on "my" WBCN constantly,

One station is what we call the exception, not the rule. Only a handful of radio stations in the entire country operated like WBCN at the time. What made it possible was that rock music was small, successful, and united. All that began to end when grunge came along.

 

[KB1OKL]

Re: Robert Savage in Radio World

I know, i was a radio junkie and had on "my" WBCN constantly,

One station is what we call the exception, not the rule. Only a handful of radio stations in the entire country operated like WBCN at the time. What made it possible was that rock music was small, successful, and united. All that began to end when grunge came along.

Maybe but we had more than one progressive station in Boston although BCN was the first and the best. We had WCOZ and WNTN AM also. Grunge is when I stopped listening to modern music for a long while and turned off MTV although I like some of it now.

 

[ddsparxx]

Re: Robert Savage in Radio World

I want the Radio Landscape changed so that I and others that enjoy good sounding music can hear it on at least -one- station in a major market.

That's the problem. Radio really hasn't changed much in the last 30 years. It's always been very controlled, in terms of content and delivery. Small playlists (thus Top 40) and lots of audio processing.

30 years ago radio was vastly different, I know, i was a radio junkie and had on "my" WBCN constantly, the play lists were much larger, they could play some of their own music, the jocks were relaxed and funny and were your buddy and at least BCN, sounded great. That is extinct nowadays, radio sounds like a juke box with thirty songs in it and the jocks aren't allowed to have personality anymore.
WBCN just switched formats after 41 years years incidentally, very sad day in Boston

The Wash. DC area had a similar situation with a station called WHFS. It was progressive/alternative many years ago before switching over grunge, rap-metal (ugh), any over tinny-sounding junk and then switched to Spanish music.

 

[ddsparxx]

Oops, I meant to say "any other tinny-sounding stuff"